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...American roads these days the fixation is on brawn and horsepower: trucks now outsell cars, and minivans and sport-utility vehicles lug the family around. (By the way, where's the New Age VW Microbus?) VW tried to cover itself by putting its tiny new number on steroids, offering the front-wheel-drive Beetle with a V-6 engine producing 150 h.p.--more than double the horses of the original. That may help some. But General Motors chairman John F. Smith declares, "Little cars don't sell here anymore. They're gone. The small car in America has disappeared. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VW's New Bug: Cute But... | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

Some of the less glorified sports are starting to make their impressions on the new students. Instead of football and hockey championships, tennis, squash and soccer have surged to the forefront as students have become more impressed with the Crimson's athletic diversity than its brawn...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Frosh Rate Harvard Sports | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

...rolling script informs us, of great hardship for the Scots. In an age of corruption and despair, Robert Roy MacGregor (Liam Neeson) upholds the ancient clannish honor. Supported by his bonny red-haired wife Mary (Jessica Lange) and a host of loyal MacGregors, Rob Roy matches wits and brawn with the dastardly Archibald Cunningham (Tim Roth), bewigged defiler (and then some) of the MacGregor name...

Author: By Natasha Wimmer, | Title: Neeson's Highlands Fall Romantically Flat | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

...matches -- has remained off limits. Although several owners' wives sailed in pre-World War II Cups, only three independent women sailors have participated in Cup trials in recent years. Was it the old saw that women bring bad luck on a boat? Or the fact that the brawn required to turn a 25-ton boat or hoist a 3,400-sq.-ft. sail is rare in females? Or the male clubbiness that excluded women even from the more cerebral positions of navigator and tactician? When the all-female team was announced, says Linda Lindquist, 32, who doubles as a sail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will They Blow the Men Down? | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

...Harvard Mediation Service because I "sounded like a pansy" and, for some reason, the Hasty Pudding Club, that legendary bastion of international diversity, never returns my phone calls. So I would have to search on my own, encountering the Other with nothing but my own wits and brawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Horror, the Horror | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

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